Relevant Publications

Please cite the following papers if you use ConnectomeDB or NATMI in your publication:

  1. ConnectomeDB2025, a high quality manually curated ligand-receptor database for cell-to-cell communication prediction, P Liu, et al. Journal Title XX (YY), ZZZ (2025)
    This work describes ConnectomeDB2025, which is our most current ligand-receptor (LR) pair database and online resource.

  2. Predicting cell-to-cell communication networks using NATMI, R Hou, et al. Nature communications 11 (1), 5011 (2020)
    This study introduces NATMI (Network Analysis Toolkit for Multicellular Interactions) and the ConnectomeDB2020 release.

  3. A draft network of ligand–receptor-mediated multicellular signalling in human, JA Ramilowski, et al. Nature communications 6 (1), 7866 (2015)
    This is the original resource upon which subsequent ConnectomeDB releases are based, and is widely used by many other LR databases.